ANCIENTS HAVE ASCENDED

[Ebonfyre]

Last night Manga was nice enough to get on and spawn the npc needed to complete the AROP. I wont give away any secrets on the final encounter. But for note we havent received any new abilities or stats. So far we are just bigger adults. The template for ANcients is still being worked on (stats etc.). Screenie will be forthcoming as its 3 am and i get up for work in 4 hours......lol

[Sevakordran]

**dances as an ancient**

Whoo! Finanly ^^ *dances*


[09/16/05 03:09:43] Silowyi begins casting Rune of Ascension on itself.
[09/16/05 03:09:44] Razon_life_chaos begins casting Rune of Ascension on itself.
[09/16/05 03:09:45] You begin casting Rune of Ascension on yourself. <(Sevakordran, me!)
[09/16/05 03:09:45] Kumu_order begins casting Rune of Ascension on itself.
[09/16/05 03:09:46] Ebonfyre_order begins casting Rune of Ascension on itself.
[09/16/05 03:09:46] Tympest_order_2 begins casting Rune of Ascension on itself.
[09/16/05 03:09:46] Akhorishaan_chaos begins casting Rune of Ascension on itself.
[09/16/05 03:09:46] Nisse`a_chaos begins casting Rune of Ascension on itself.
[09/16/05 03:09:47] Akuluxtraxas begins casting Rune of Ascension on itself.
[09/16/05 03:09:48] Star-fyre_chaos begins casting Rune of Ascension on itself.
[09/16/05 03:10:38] Hyacinthe_chaos begins casting Rune of Ascension on itself.

**Official member of the first 11 Ancients on Blight**
**<Soon to be on Chaos? I hope so!**>

[imported_Silowyi]

Poor Hyacinthe :( must have been afk.

I want to say, everyone in this group worked together very well, and even though we spawned about 50 <end boss name deleted> and died lots, and some of us got the credit, and some didn't, we all stuck around and finished it together.

That's really cool.

Let's do it next week on live shards :)

[Sevakordran]

Yish!

XD And it being 4am now I have to get ready for work >.< No sleepies for me tonight.

Work is gonna be hell, but I consider it worth in :D

[Hyacinthe]

Yes I had to step away for a second.. i said i would brb...

[Sevakordran]

Yeah, and unfortunatly Mighty didnt get in it ither at all :/

Hope I can get home soon enough today to start helping others with Elial as they come online. :3

KIC all, work time XD

[Pharcellus]

Me too! [:D]

Thanks to Silowyi, Tympest, Hyacinthe, and Star-fyre who came back and helped my lagging-behind tail!

..and those thanks go to everyone who helped out in this last stage, from the first Dragon to set foot in the Rift, to all the Ancients that make it the first day. Everyone helped each other keep up, even through falling down the rift valleys, fighting multiple spawned bosses and lots of DPs.

Good show, folks!

Oh, here I am, dwarfing Bristugo. [:P]

[Tympest]

Weeee, congrats to all the new ancients on blight! I have pictures!

Impatient dragons wait for Manga
Getting ready to ascend
Ancients!
Me as an ancient
Hatchlings look so tiny now

[Razon]

Have some comparison pictures of my own, courtisy of Steelclaw (thanks for hoasting!).

http://sanguine-embrace.net/stash/razon/

[Ulkesh]

gratz to all you "bigger" dragons out there :)

hopefully when i get to log onto blight later today there will be more dragons on.

*jumps up and down waiting for it to hit live*

[Velat]

What?!?! No pictures of anyone flying? Lets see how big that wing span is!
[;)][li]

[Theolaerynn]

Weeee, congrats to all the new ancients on blight! I have pictures!

Stupid work [:@]

Congrats, all!!

How much was left after the point we were stopped at the other day? Killed the 4 critters and logged out at the Sleeper....

[Pharcellus]

VERY little.

One mob, some chitchat with a couple NPCs, click the button and poof!

[Vlisson]

wow nice

so the arop is complete now? great thing

[PJ]

Dragons. Dragons have roamed the realms of Istaria for nigh on two years, but what are they? After months of extensive study, lurking quietly in their meeting halls. I've seen it all. From unsual emotes: pounces, glomps, biting, and gnawing, to bizarre sound effects: bwee. They seem to possess a range of characteristics reminding Istarians of cats, dogs, or even the occasional cow. Not to mention their unusual cuisine. Are they merely figments of overactive imaginations? Orjust simply, fat, giagantic, flying lizards. The truth is perhaps far more sinister.

To understand what a Dragon is, one must somehow gain a glimpse of their private, sacred, almost cultlike ceremonies. And now, Istarian Expose is pleased to bring you thereport of a daring photo-journalistwho infiltrated the most sacred ceremony of all, the Ascension of the Ancients.

https://webspace.utexas.edu/mummeymj.../Ancients1.jpg
https://webspace.utexas.edu/mummeymj.../Ancients2.jpg
https://webspace.utexas.edu/mummeymj.../Ancients3.jpg

Confusion. Shock. What does this all mean?

In our search for answers, the Council of Ancients was sought out.

Are you the living sacrifice?

I don't remember ordering lunch in...

Do you know how many ways I could kill you with just a single talon

One, two..., yes you will be the fifth biped I have cooked for bothering me.

The gifted can still experience pain. Linger much longer and I will be forced to demonstrate.

Surely that speaks for itself.



Coming Next week, Istarian Expose daringly enters the Rift itself, to get a rare 1st anywhere, interview with The Sleeper!

The sleeper was said to comment, "Zzz..."

[David Bowman]

Thank you for helping us test this... the testing is not yet done. This will not go to the otherLive shards until it works all the way through as intended. Some things to know: we continue to change the monsters in the Rift, you don't have the Ancient models on your machines yet, Elial will be adjusted based on the first test results, and I'm certain other things will change. You are on the Blight testing shard, be respectful of the full-time Blight testers, they help us smooth out many things before they hit the other Live shards. Thanks again for your help.

David

[Sevakordran]

From unsual emotes: pounces, glomps, biting, and gnawing, to bizarre sound effects: bwee.

Do not ye diss the bwee. For the Bwee is good, and shall remain among the bwee.

^^ heh

(Oooh, one of my suggestions for the biped reponsces got it! Yay take in!)

[Sevakordran]

Thanks to Silowyi, Tympest, Hyacinthe, and Star-fyre who came back and helped my lagging-behind tail!

Sorry -.- I woulda stuck around longer to assist but it was 4am XD I had to go to work >.< *whines*

[imported_Frith-Rae]

um do any of you blight ancient dragons know...

Can anyone attend the Ascension of the Ancient one - or is it in an area limited to dragons only, adults only, ancients only - etc??

All I'm wondering!!

and CONGRATZ!!!! [pi][B][Y]

[Pharcellus]

Thank you for helping us test this... the testing is not yet done.

Yupyup. Not going anywhere till the stew is done!

Some things to know: ... you don't have the Ancient models on your machines yet

Really? Since when? There's been Ancient models on our systems since beta. Are you changing them now?

You are on the Blight testing shard, be respectful of the full-time Blight testers, they help us smooth out many things before they hit the other Live shards.

Yupyup. Always happy to lend a claw to the native Blighters. [;)]